I'd have eagerly bought a 3DS, and I have absolutely no intention of touching $800 smartphones. I love Nintendo's games, and playing games on smartphones sucks. I'm sorry. It does. If you disagree, you're wrong.

But. The battery life sounds terrible, $250 is way too much considering the intro prices of the previous handhelds, the launch titles are pretty lame, and they've jumped whole-hog onto the region locking thing.